Closet-seat and method of making the same



I. S. FRANKLIN.

CLOSET SEAT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.23, 191.8.

1,815,488., Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

TETS

PATENT OFFICE.

IRA S. FRANKLIN, F BQSTO N MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOSET-SEMI AND METHOD OF MAKING THE Fpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented dept. Q, 1919'.

Application filed September '23, 1913. Serial No. 2553M.

vide a relatively inexpensive and at the same time rigid and practically non-breakable closet seat, adapted to be finished externally by bufling and varnishing, joints or cracks liable to separate and receive disease germs.

' The invention is embodied in the improved seat and in the method of mahng the same hereinafter described and claimed.

0f the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification:

Figure 1 represents in plan the layers of which the seat is made, said layers being separated from each other.

Fig. 2 is a section of line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a seat formed by assemblmg said layers and cet nt all

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men-ting them together. Fig. 4 is a section of line l4= of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing the completed seat. i

Fig. 6 is a plan view of a layer formed as a member of an open-front seat. y

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

lln carrying out my invention, die from suitable absorbent fibrous sheet-material, such as paper board used for book bindings, and preferably from oneeighth (a) to three sixteenths of an inchin thickness, a plurality of seat-shaped layers 12, each of which preferably, has an opening 13 formed by the die which forms the margin of the layer. The layers are of identical 1 form, so that, when assembled as indicated by Fig. 3, they form a seat, or seat-body of suitable thickness, an desired number of layers being employe Before assembling the layers, 1 coat their proximate surfaces with any suitable adhesive composition adapted to penetrate said surfacesto a depth of at least one-sixteenth of an inch The adhesive composition may be composed of one pound of dried glue softened by cold water, and then converted into a somewhat thick and viscous solution by boilmg water, four-fifths of an ounce of glycerin, and twoand free from out" by a.

to solidify by drying or finished in, any suitable way, as by first resemble mahogany or other thirds of anounce of either bichromate of potash or bichromate of soda. The layers are then assembled, with their openings comoldin while the adhesive is soft. The assembl age of layers is then subjected to pressure, which is maintained until the adheslve sets or solidifies by drying, a laminated seat or seat-body being thus formed, wh ch is rendered rigid by the adhesive composltlon permeating considerable portions of p the layers. The seat is then finished, preferably by the operations next described.

. he margin of the seat opening is suitably beveled or tapered by a trimming tool. The external surfaces of the seat are next buffed by sand-paper or any other suitable abrading instrumentality. To the bufi'ed surfaces is applied a water-proof and acidproof coating, composed of a hard-drying pasty composition adherent to the abraded surfaces, the coating bein adapted to be buffed and varnished. his composition may consist of one pound of dried glue converted into a thinner solution ,than that above described, adapted to take up a powder and thus form a semi-liquid composition of the consistency of paste four-fifths of an ounce of glycerin, two-thirds of an ounce of bichromate of potash 0r bichromate of soda and a suflicient quantity of powdered-talc to form a pasty composition adapted to be applied and spread smoothly by a brush. The nature of the said composition is such that the coating formed thereby adheres firmly to the surfaces to which it is applied. The coating is indicated by the heavy black line 14 in Fig. 5. The coating 14 is allowed and isfinally dressed bufiing and then varnishing the coating.

e com osition may contain coloring mat ter suita Is for imparting the color of ma hogany to the coating 14, and the varnish may be similarly colored. The chief object of the coating 14 is to enable the external surfaces of the seat to be finished to closely wood. r, The powdered material gives body to the coating and enables it to be buffed without exposing the material of the layers 12, the buffed and varnished surface of the coati being separated by the body of the coating from the surfaces of the layers which back and support the coating. 1

The layers 12 may be cut from sheet material by a die adapted to form only the mar- 0 free from liability to shrink gins of the layers, the seat opening being formed by a saw after the layers are assembled. I prefer to employ a sufiicient number of layers to form a seat of about one and one-eighth inch (1%") in thickness.

I am enabled by the described method to provide a seat which is relatively inexpensive, can be finished in any desired color, is adapted to repel moisture and acid, and is and swell and form cracks.

As shown by Fig. 6, the openings 13 in the layers 12 may be open at one end, so that the seat may be of the open-front type.

The preferred mode of operation, including the step of providing each layer with an opening before the layers are assembled, enables the seat opening to be provided by the operation of assembling the layers, the expense of a subsequent opening-formin operation after the layers are assembled eing avoided.

I claim: 1. The method of making a closet seat constitutin a completed article of manufacture, w ich consists in forming a seat from a plurality of layers of fibrous sheet material coated with an adhesive which penetrates the surfaces thereof, the layers being assembled while the adhesive is soft, and

5 proof sub ected to pressure until the adhesive sets or solidifies by drying, and finishin the surfaces of the seat by bufling said sur 'aces, applying to the buffed surfaces a pasty waterand acidproof coating adapted to be bufli'ed and varnished and including a harddrying liquid adherent to and penetrating the said buffed surfaces and powdered mathen finishing the external surfaces terial giving body to the coating, allowing said coating to solidify by drying, and finally bufiin and varnishing said coating.

2. The met 0d of making a closet seat constituting a completed article of manufacture,

which consists in cutting out, from absorbent fibrous sheet material, a plurality of seat shaped layers, coating said layers with an adheslve, which penetrates the surfaces thereof, assembling the layers, while the adhesive is soft, subjecting the assembled layers to pressure and maintaining the pressure until the adhesive sets or solidifies by drying, thus formin ,a'rigid laminated seat, forming a tapere opening-margin in the seat, and of the seat b bufling said surfaces, applying to the bufie surfaces a pasty water-proof and acid-proof coating adapted to be bufled and "arnished, and including a harddryi liquid adherent to and penetrating the szii abraded surfaces and powdered material giving body to the coating, allowin said coating to solidify by dr ing, and nally bufiin and varnishing sai coating.

3. is an article of manufacture, a closet seat com rising a plurality of layers of absorbent brous material, said layers being cemented together and absorbing a portion of the cement, and a rigid water-proof and acid-proof coating adherent to and coverin the surfaces of said seat and having buffed and varnished surfaces separated ,.b the coating from the surfaces of said ayers which back the said coatin In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

IRA S. FRANKLIN. 

